Burial-casket attachment



F. P. J. SPARMAKER.

BURKAL CASKET ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 11, 1920.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 25, 1921.

Application filed February 11, 1920. Serial No. 357,939

To all whom it may concem:

Be it known that I, FRANK P. J. SPAR- MAKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Audubon, in the county of 0amden and State of New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Improved Burial-Casket Attachment, of which'the following is a specification. I

The present invention relates to burial casket attachments and has more especial relation to detachable handle parts therefor which are primarily designed for application to burial caskets constructed of cementitious material.

The leading object of. the present invention may be said to be the providing of a two-part handle supporting connection of which one part may be molded in the side walls of a casket during its construction and of which the other part may readily be at tached thereto without the employment of screws, bolts or like attaching mediums. A

further object is to provide an article ofthis kind which is of simple and inexpensive structure and which is durable and efficient for the purposes designed. Other and further objects relate to the provision of general details of construction and arrangements and connections of parts as will hereinafter appear.

The invention consists of. the improve ments hereinafter described and finally claimed.

The nature, characteristic features and scope of the invention will be more fully understood from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, and in which: i

Figure 1, is a View in side elevation of the attachment of the invention the parts being in position for assembling.

Fig. 2. is a view in front elevation, partly sectioned, of the parts shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3, is a view in side elevation of the parts shown in Figs. 1 and 2 in assembled position. i

Fig. d, is a top or plan view of Fig. 3, and

Fig. 5, is a fragmentary view of a burial casket illustrating the attachment of the invention in application thereto.

For the purpose of illustrating my invention I have shown in the accompanying drawings one form thereof which is at present preferred by me, since the same has been found in practice to give satisfactory and reliable results, although it is to be understood that the various instrumentalities of which my invention consists can be variously arranged and organized and that mv invention is not limited to the-precise a1 rangement and organization of the instrumentalities as herein shown and described. In the drawings 10 designates a member which in practice is fixed and 11 a member which in practice is adapted for attachable interlocking relation therewith. These parts are, in practice, stamped from sheet metal. The member 10 comprises a pair of laterally extended, oppositely disposed arms 12 each terminating in an outwardly and upwardly extended finger 18. The fingers are spaced apart and connected across the front by a crosspiece 1d and across the rear by a cross-piece 15. In practice the above described member is stamped from a single piece of material and bent to the shape shown and described. The member 11 comprises a hub-portion 16 which terminates in an arm 17 the free endof which is apertured as at 18 and slotted as at 19. The arm 17 is adaptedto be passed up between the fingers 13 in a substantially vertical man-. ner see Fig. l with the slot 19 engaging over the cross-piece '14: until the wall of aperture 18 abuts against said cross-piece. The member 11 is then moved to the position shown in Fig. 3, with the cross-piece engaging within aperture 18 and the free end of arm 17 resting upon cross-piece 15. In this position member 11 is relatively in terlocked with respect to member 10. The inner wall of the hub-portion 16 has bent out therefrom a pairof laterally extended ears 2021, car 21 being stamped from car 20 in practice. The member 11 in practice is stamped from a single piece of metal. The above described members 10 and 11 comprise a support and a handle and are designed primarily as a burial casket attachment although obviously other uses therefore may be found. A description will now be given of the manner of utilizing the device of the invention in connection with a casket. A Referring to Fig. 5, 22 designates a casket molded from a cementitious substance. In practice a plurality of members 10' are positioned in the side walls of a casket during the molding process, it being understood that the arms 12 are located to the rear of the side walls of the casket. Also positioned in the side walls of a casket, adjacent the lower part thereof, is a piece of material 23 preferably-of wood. Fixed to the arms ofa member 10 and to said material 23 is a strip 24. Thus when the casket 22 is lifted by its handles strain and stress instead of being referred to the. side walls .of, a casket are referred through strip 24L to material 23. It

willbe imderstood that'in practice an ornamental covering of suitable material and design is constructed around members 11 and that an ornamental plate-effect is molded or otherwise formed upon the casket sides immediately adjacent the members 10. However this forms no part of the present invention and has not been illustrated. To complete the casket structure an elongated handle ofstandard form is passed through embodies the features of advantage enumerated as desirable in thestatement of the invention and the above description and while I have in the present instance shown and described the preferred embodiment thereof which has been found in practice to give satisfactory and reliable results, it to be understood that the same is susceptible of modification in various particulars without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention or sacrificing any or its advantages'. a

1 hat claim is i 1. In combination, a socket comprising a one-piece member of thin, fiat metal shaped to form oppositely disposed, fixed arms each terminating in outwardly and upwardly ex tended spaced fingers, a pivot bar extended across said arm at the front thereof, a stop extended across said fingers at the rear thereof and in a plane below said'pivot bar and 'a one-piece thin flat arm one end of which is slotted and apertured in communicating relation said arm being insertible between said fingers with said aperture engaging over said pivot bar to provide a detachable, interlocking, pivotal mount, theunder side of said arm being adapted to rest upon said stop. Y

' 2. In, combination, a portable hollow structure of cementitious material, an element embedded in a wall of said structure, said element at: one end being projected outwardly and upwardly therefrom to form a socket and being projected at its otherend into the interior'of said structure, a mem ber anchored 1n sald wall 1n a plane below said element and also projected into the interior of said structure, reinforcing means within said structure and connecting said element and member and a handle cooperatively engaging said socket.

' In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name.

FRANK P. J SPARMAKER. 

